Building-strip for toy structures.



APPLICATION FILED SEPT. l h 195.

Patented Mar; 7,1916.

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ARTHUR C. FRIEDEL, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

BUILDING-STRIP FORv TOY STRUCTURES.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Application filed September 11, 1915.. Serial No. 50,191.

To all whomz't may concern.

Be it known that I, ARTHUR C. FRmnEL, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Building-Strips for Toy Structures, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full,

clear, and exact descrlption.

This invention relates ments in building strips for toy structures, although it is evident that the same strips may be used in constructing utility models of various devices, such as the frame work for bird houses, carnival floats and figures temporary or permanent structures. i 1

The main object is to make these building strips in duplicate of stiff paste-board. or

equivalent inexpensive material of convenlent size for handling and to provide them with systematic perforations, scores and creases arranged in such manner that they may be used as a whole or accurately subdivided into definite lengths or widths and easily and quickly assembled for producing a great variety-of structural designs for the same or difi'erent'purposes by simply inserting pegs or clencher eyelets through the registering perforations at the joints as may be required for producing temporary or permanent structures.

Other objects and uses relating to the specific structure of the strip will be brought out in the following description.

In the d'rawingsFigure 1 is a perspective view of the .frame of a bird house constructed with my improved building strips. ig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of one of the building strips showing the manner of perforating, scoring and creasing the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of two strips united at one end at right angles and a half brace connecting them.

The strip as A forming the subject-matter of' my invention is preferably made of stifl card, paste-board or other comparatively inexpensive material of any suitable length and Width convenient for handling, but preferably of rectangular form and of considerably greater length than width, said st'rip being scored or creased lengthwise along a medial line 'so that either lengthwise half may be readily bent or folded along such line at any angle relatively to to certain improve.-

f ings as eyelets mit said strip to be easily separated by breaking orcutting along said line so that the half strips may be used for other purposes as braces or tie pieces a, also shown-in Fig. 1.

In addition to the lengthwise crease or score .1-, the surface of the strip is divided by transverse scores or lines 2 into equal lengthwise spacesof substantially the same length as halfthe width of the strip, thus dividing each into a seriesof squares, and each square is in turn subdivided by diagonal lines -3 extending from corner to corner and, there'- fore, intersecting each other at the centers of the squares, at which centers the strip is provided with perforations 4, and it, therefore, follows that each half of the strip 1- is provided with a central lengthwise row of these perforations and that such perforations are spaced apart longitudinally and transversely a distance equal to -half the width of the strip.

One of the objects in subdividing the surface of the strip by the transverse lines to be more accurately assembled one upon the other a definite distance from the ends thereof, another object being to permit two or more strips to be cut to the same or different lengths along said lines-with the assurance that the perforations 4 will remain in the samerelation to the ends of the strip.

The purpose of. the diagonal lines -3 is to enable the strips to be out along such lines when necessary in fitting such parts in an an le with theassurance that the holes 4 o the registered. When the strips are placed in proper relative position for joining with the apertures at the joints in registration, suitable fasten- -5' are passed through the registering apertures and clenched. to securely hold the strips in such relation. I

In assembling the strips to form a structure, it is obvious that when all of them are arranged in parallel spaced relation corresponding to any predetermined number of spaces of a connecting strip so that the apertures in the strip will register with apertures in the spaced strips, any additional number of parallel connecting strips may half of the strip joinedparts may be properly awe-see be connected to the spaced strips with the assurance that corresponding apertures will register for receiving the fastening members.

By arranging the apertures in squares as illustrated and described, it is also evident that the aperture'sin diagonal brace strips may be brought into registration with apertures in the strips which are to be braced by properly adjusting the brace strip, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and enables the parts of a toy structure to be readily assembled at different angles as Well as in parallel or rectangular form.

What I claim is:

1. A building strip for toy structuresconsisting of a rectangular elongated piece of pasteboard orequivalent material creased or scored along a medial lengthwise line to form similar half sections, each bendable ARTHUR C. FRIEDEL.

Witnesses:

H. E. CHASE,

Amen M. Cannon. 

